New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-11
FT1T BAR HARBOR SPECULATION.
rpnE 1NwARpNnss OF SILLY CHARGES.
am p,A,Sr's REAL INTEREST IN THE NEW WATER


am BIAINE'S REAL INTEREST IN lHE NE" "'iH-'
COMPANY.
ran HArBoR Me-, Feb. 6.-Bar Harbor' MS every ONO
who has ever spent two weeks here IN the summer
$500, has ,org suffered from insufficient ana exas
.,,nvv irregular supply OF water There is but one
.o,s, company here a close monopoly, 999 OF WHOSE
.nsres Arc controlled by famy-the hodieKs A"o"
sourteeu years ago Rodck by stroke OF enterprise
,ros.allno Another old Bar Harbor landowner Mr..
xy.wor-nrocured a charter from the Maine Legfsia
%ure authorizing him to build me vi
-, 90 Earle Lake and furnish the town
,th wafer on whatever terms he could make with the
sillarers who had got along well enough so FAR wtnou
such luxury. and with the cottagers then peeih""s
e,rn TO Mount Desert In small numbers 10 WHOM "q"o
duct water" and good deal OF it, was ioh2 isea ic
atty The Bar Harbor reservoir, as Mr. RodicR pui' ''
was thought to be feet above the sea level hsher
than almost any point in about the village hain
WAS laid along one of principal streets and the new
watersystem was put operation. But somehow e'ei
since then there has been chrome aio
here Whether the pipes have ieaSeu y.
have been clogged up, or the reservoir we"
built in some fashion that the laws OF hydrauhcs u
take TO kindly it is certain that the "aquednet "ae
has failed regularly to appear where IL Wac mus
ona ha. slupk AWAY to the lowest levels most
,uyv when baths we're urgent In summer anu "os
gnests and cottagers vainly trggfng ana oe oA
M t,a,us.s COTTAGE for instance is some lao fees
-, t,o water and so below that OF the Rodick res
or Vet during the two months OF the season, as he
ha said there has never been days supply In hts house
and he has been able TO get enough Tor more tnan OF
diDory domestic only by hiring man at
two dollars q day TO pump It. 80 fragrant. IN
fact. did the abuse become last summer that a
petition TO tho Legislature for the chartering
~ a new water company circulated and signed by
nearly every one of the OF cottages The petition
now before the Legislature The Rodcks are opposing
IL tooth aud nail through their attorneys The new COM
pauy is to be called the Bar Harbor Wafer Company Its
stock will be subscribed to by the petitioners, and.
II the charter is granted. an attempt Will DO
made to get a water supply on easy terms
for ALI concerned which will pure and abundant
Eagle Lake will he tapped by large main and system
of small piping will be laid In all the streets OF the Town.
Under Rodicks monopoly every cOttager living of Eden
st. had put down his piping to the man, often AZ
cost of $3.50 or 500 Eagle Lake Is clear pure sdset
ts round With for ali ' kSs & so ~ ali
the improvements which his attorneys naI pro
them of continual complaints and opportunities Bar
Harbor has been afflicted every summer with az the dis
Mr. blaine was called as a witness in the astweek
Augusta and his and convincing testimony before
the legislative committee oored the opposing attorneys.
He showed that the Rodck water-system was an
annoying monopoly which had already realized large
profits its value Increasing OF course with the remark
able growth OF town, while its inetciency and ex-
tortiohs were real stnnS,ingDppSes IN tae
from the lack OF water during the summer months
was matter of daily talk, and the freaks OF the water
supply being able reach anything Ire us sup
posed level notorious Mr. Blaine said that ne re-
ce,yed bill OF 500 80 for two months supply OF water
last summer and the water company afterw ard admitted
the unreasonabeness OF its charge by cutting u 10 So
There seems he nothing however, that Mr. Blaine can
do take interest in, without exposing himself sou
a OF malicious crtclsni In Tie lace Vi
this public cutlery against the Rodick Company ana
its marked inefiiciency, tho Bar Harbor Company
is charged with being mere blind behind which
ing a gigantic speculation In Bar Harbor land. a
most absurd report has been eleSraphed from Augusta
TO New York paper in which IL is said that the New
York syndicate bought all the ground To he benefited
by better water supply and that after breaking down inc
present watersystem, II WILL by controlling both land
and water rates. prices enormously aud pract
cay control OF the promising Watering
place on the coast The fact is that no New
Workers at all have been specializing i'll land here NO
syndicate been formed Is dreamed or Nor does
MIR Blaine own any real estate whatever In Bar Harbor
except an acre two perhapsOn which the house that
he built in 1885 stands The real estate bubble mere
moonshne The stock Of the new water company will
selectman Higgins OF Eden. is of the prominent
local movers in the matter and the petition has
strong local backing The only dissident have heard
of is rancorous NewIOrker. who has cottage here,
and who makes life burden 10 all who have ever under
taken ANYTHING with him by his offensive obsinacy and
his sullen ruin policy He did not have CONTROL
ing interest in the company offered him. Hence
these tears OF wrath NewYork and Augusta Ask for
the man who bears universally among your Wall street
habitues offensive nickname ever bestowed upon
member of the stock board-a name the fitness OF which
everybody recognizes that has had dealings with
him That's the who is unhappy at the prospect OF
Bar Harbors getting decent water supply.